# Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting - Hardcover

by **Mike Kelley** (Artist), **Jenelle Porter** (Editor), **Jenelle Porter** (Introduction by)

**The first thorough look at Mike Kelley's riotous, irreverent and colorful paintings**

Featuring paintings from series that span a 15-year period, 1994 through 2009, this volume traces Mike Kelley's (1954-2012) engagement with the medium through bodies of work including _The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter)_, a series of oval-shaped paintings on wood; _Timeless Painting_, which marked Kelley's distinct return to painting in color, and which he described as mannerist take-offs on Hans Hofmann's compositional theory of 'push and pull'; the _Horizontal Tracking Shots_ series; as well as works made under the umbrella of his expansive and ambitious _Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions_, a series related to the _Educational Complex_ artwork.

Kelley's seminal mixed-media installation _Profondeurs Vertes_, his ode to the influential paintings in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts that captivated him as a young person, is also featured.

The publication includes texts by various contemporary visual artists responding to Kelley's art: Edgar Arceneaux, Carroll Dunham, Daniel Guzmán, Richard Hawkins, Jay Heikes, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Mary Reid Kelley, Christina Quarles and Laurie Simmons.

**Number of Pages:** 200

**Dimensions:** 1 x 12.7 x 9.7 IN

**Publication Date:** December 17, 2019

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